Mass Effect

[positron1]

I just finished this game and all I can say is.....WHOA!!!! Never before have I played a game that stirred up that much emotion in me. I know some people who have played it will say meh but for everyone there's those select few games that take everything that you like and manage to pack them in so much so that if you could be a game you would be that game well this is it for me. It's fantastic!

[MinisterofDOOM]

I never played it due to the really really horrible "I-need-to-gargle-bleach" bad taste that Knights of the Old Republic left in my mouth.

Maybe I should pick up a used copy and give it a try anyway, though.

[bmike818]

the game is definitely a love it or hate it. I enjoyed the game, I just don't like the half a$$ effort they put in the moon rover part of the game. I was waiting for a planet with water or some change, but no every planet you land on looks very similar. I regeret buying the expansion, it was basically one planet to explore that's it. story was alright, nothing spectaular.

[positron1]

What expansion???

[MinisterofDOOM]

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en...SLink

[bmike818]

don't buy it! Batarians!? f*ck Batarians!

[snwbrdr435]

[positron1]

I'm playing the PC version, that DLC is free on PC.

[BusyBadger]

I never played it due to the really really horrible "I-need-to-gargle-bleach" bad taste that Knights of the Old Republic left in my mouth.

What? Are you serious? Please tell me you're talking about KOTOR II and not the original

I picked up a copy of Mass Effect ages ago at Wal-Mart when I saw it for $20 and forgot I had it until I was reading through this thread. Its still in the shrink wrap on the shelf waiting behind Riddick (just finished the original the other day) and Quantum of Solace (price dropped to $30 at Wal-Mart). Then there's finishing all the achievements for Assassin's Creed (before the second one comes out) Fallout 3 and Fable, ugh...

I am looking forward to Mass Effect though, I've heard so much about the planet spanning epic that I've done my best to isolate myself from any & all material that details the slightest bit about the game.

[positron1]

I'm gonna have to look up this Knights Of The Republic and check that out.

[MinisterofDOOM]

What? Are you serious? Please tell me you're talking about KOTOR II and not the original

Nope. I know I am in a very tiny minority but I really hated the first KOTOR. Never bothered with the second one.

My first taste of KOTOR was at a friend's place. I watched him play with a ~midlevel character. Looked fun. The combat looked enjoyable and the RPG elements looked fun. I love action RPGs so I went out and bought it.The appeal wore off fast as the game rapidly degraded into nothing more than running around bland, confusing cities talking to bland, pointless characters. WAY too much (BAD) story and not nearly enough gameplay. If I wanted to wade through a bad Star Wars novel I would have pulled out my I Hate Kevin J. Anderson Club Platinum Member booklight and actually read some Star Wars novels.

I got SO sick of running around bland, interchangeable, forgettable cities talking to bland, interchangeable, forgettable people and wading through "amazing branching quest dialog" that I didn't care about. Most of it was forgettable at best. The early stages of the game were horrendously tedious ad combat just wasn't all that fun. The game played nothing like what I thought it would after seeing it played. It's so much clunkier and just...excessively stretched out. EVERYTHING is tedious to excess. Battles don't flow at all, instead you're pausing every 2 seconds to swap out abilities and hotkeys. The story requires to you walk walk walk walk walk walk walk. There's so much walking that Frodo would be jealous. At least Frodo got to walk through places that were interesting to look at, though. Not MORE space-future grey corridors lined with MORE blue aliens.

I think the problem with KOTOR was it's pacing. I can absolutely dig into a slow-paced game (Fire Emblem and X-Com are two of my favorite games for crying out loud) but tedious crawl does not magically equate to strategic pacing. The game was so boring I had no desire to play it.

It's really hard to devote yourself to wading through KOTOR when you have DII: LoD sitting on the shelf screaming "Hey, Jackass! Wanna play a REAL RPG?!"

[sil80_chris]

I freaking love this game...i still haven't beat it but the game is awesome but it lags sometimes at least for me...but its a great game even though i haven't beat it yet...

[positron1]

Man you are in for a wild ride if you love sci-fi, shooters, RPG's or all three! This game has taken over part of my life, I just got the books off ebay to hold me over because the second game won't be out till March of next year. Baldur's Gate's successor "DragonAge Origins" which is from the same group that worked on Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights and Mass Effect is due to hit at the end of this year so that should be good too.

[MinisterofDOOM]

Dragon Age looks like it should be a lot of fun. I generally don't like party-based singleplayer rpgs but I might have to overlook that one with Dragon Age. BioWare has taken story-driven RPGs to the next level with it by the look of things so far.

I liked NWN but never played BG much because of the party-based aspect.

[t321321]

Mass effect is a good game, I have played it on my spare time while waiting for my 240 to dry =p I'd recommend it for like $20 or less.

[f1seb]

I just got this game from steam.

Playing it right now. So far so good. The story in the beginning was really good. But now it kinda is slowing down....I'm also getting killed a lot more, and I'm not really digging the battle controls. With how you can pause the game and then try to make one of your comrads do something that is not stupid.

[positron1]

They didn't explain the control system very well because I was halfway through the game before I realized you could move the targeting reticule while the game was paused...WTF was I thinking?! Still a great game though and I'm anxious for the sequel even though it's a year away. Saw some great footage on Gametrailers E3 preview last night on Spike.